THOUGHTS & IDEAS

[ 2 min read ] If you lived in the same time Vincent van Gogh lived you would have been called mad for wanting to pay several million dollars for one of his paintings (or the equivalent of it in those days). But not if you had had a friend...
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[ 3 min read ] Opinions of how many of us precisely are needed before someone becomes a genius? It’s this, isn’t it? Our collective voice (opinion) makes those geniuses. It isn’t very hard to figure out that it so happens. What’s much harder is figuring out why / in...
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[ 2 min read ] Let me live my life the way I want. Or…, on a second thought, I don’t need your permission. Accept the fact that I loathe your script, and that I rejected it. Or…, on a second thought, I don’t need you to accept it. Understand...
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[ 4 min read ] The Resistance is at work 24/7 365. And it is hell of a factor. (“Resistance” with a capital R is the greatest obstacle to us fulfilling our potential as it keeps us from doing; all forms of self-sabotage count as Resistance; it’s a concept created...
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[ 4 min read ] People take most things at face value (the reality of the world with which they were presented) without ever pondering if the solutions, methods, approaches are actually the best. But for anything that flies in the face of the tried and true they need some...
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[ 1 min read ] People don’t like to learn that life could be different. That’s why they’ll always tell you things like Now you say that. Wait until you’ll reach my age. You’ll know I’m right. They obsess about being right. They absolutely need to be right. The mere...
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[ 2 min read ] Don’t call yourself an amateur photographer on your Instagram profile if you take photos every day but that’s not something you earn money with. Maybe if you’re good at it it’s just a matter of your mindset (different from the one you have right now)...
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[ 3 min read ] There is no master plan in the universe. Its only purpose is to be, exist. At least that’s the most reasonable (or I should say reliable) assumption. Why is it the most reliable assumption? Because today we already know that the universe exists (galaxies, planets,...
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[ 2 min read ] I think the fact that people feel disappointed with humanity and lament or withdraw (as some great writers or thinkers did) doesn’t mean we as species failed (and should be ashamed of ourselves and maybe even think of ourselves as unworthy of our position in...
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[ 1 min read ] I think we should open our eyes to the fact that we’re the only species that has hard time accepting who they are (all our flaws which we didn’t invent), because we keep telling ourselves little nice stories about us as species (create in our...
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[ 2 min read ] I think we all have to travel a great distance before we can finally make peace with ourselves, and with the people who naturally are closest to us, or the people about whom we care the most, or those about whom we once cared enough...
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[ 2 min read ] Go on and laugh at us you well-educated asshole from this so called elite of the society (crème de la crème citizens), who, according to his own conviction, has all the reasons to believe that he is the master of the universe, and earned himself...
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[ 3 min read ] The overwhelming majority of people believe that we should only revere past masters and that we, small people (the lesser descendants of the once fabulous human beings) will never be able to come close to those giants of our history. That those who are capable...
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[ 1 min read ] How about working first wherever you can (and like), even if it’s not in “your” field (doing things even people without college education could), instead of trying to figure out everything in your early 20s before you get to work (because that’s the most common...
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[ 6 min read ] In the words of Jack (played by Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s movie The Shining) the Donner Party were a party of settlers in the covered wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannabilism in order to...
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[ 1 min read ] A young guy says to an older man “Hey, how did you get so successful?” “By making good decisions,” the older man answers. “How did you learn to make good decisions?” “From experience,” the older man says “Well, how did you get the experience?” The...
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[ 4 min read ] Time and again we tell ourselves fairy tales how we will save “our” planet or how we did that in the past. Maybe “our” planet doesn’t need to be saved? Maybe the fact that we do things that gradually “destruct” and deplete “our” planet is...
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